types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the …

Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the …

Sporting events can be seen as controlled, real-world, miniature laboratory environments, approaching the idea of … (Goff and Tollison 1990, Torgler 2009). Thus, a growing number of studies have used sports data to study decision making … questions that have guided behavioural economics literature. Creative application of sports data can offer insights into …